Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd recently delivered and commissioned two panamax STS cranes in Vladivostok and has taken orders for further STS cranes to be delivered to Novorossiysk and St Petersburg.

During the first six months of the year, the number of containers exported via the Port of Gothenburg rose by 3 per cent. This is a new volume record and a reflection of strong Swedish export volumes to markets outside Europe.

Southampton's strategic role as a regional gateway for the new generation of ultra-large container ships (ULCS) was reinforced yesterday with calls from two ocean carriers – among the largest and newest in the world – which berthed in tandem at the UK's only South Coast container terminal, DP World Southampton.

From the beginning of September the Stena Carrier and Stena Freighter on the Rotterdam-Harwich route will be replaced by two new, smaller vessels. The two freight vessels Capucine and Severine will be chartered from Cobelfret on a five-year contract. 

The Port of Ashdod in Israel has set a new record in port productivity by handling an all-time high number of containers in a shift.

The world's largest heavy lift vessel called at the Port of Tyne to pick up a number of offshore modules from IHC Engineering Business (IHC) based at the Port.

Mark Lyndon UK, one of the UK's largest exporters of used paper, has confirmed that it will significantly reduce haulage costs and increase the efficiency of its export operations by moving cargo through London Gateway.

The Port of Virginia handled 180,384 TEU in July, an increase of 8 percent when compared with totals from July 2011.

Global engineering group Cavotec has won an order to supply 18 MoorMaster™ automated mooring units for a container handling application at a Mediterranean Sea port, marking yet another landmark project in the company's long-standing history in the maritime engineering industry.